The Palace

“My palace was to be a golden cup which love would fill for us…”

And a vision, too, for an idealistic young peasant, Gabriele del Campo, tossed aside by fortune during Garibaldi’s unification of Italy. A grand palace, his life’s work for the beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella.

As he languishes in prison, del Campo takes the first steps towards his dream. Educated in the ways of the world by his cellmate, twice escaping execution, he emerges from prison to find riches – as a fearless gambler in the corrupt underworld of Venice. At last he might win Donna Donatella’s love. All he can do now is wait for her …